Facebook has declined to accept responsibility in a recent hack that compromised the phone numbers of 533 million users.
In an April 6th blog post, Facebook product management director Mike Clark attempted to address the hack, which was first discovered on April 3rd by Alan Gal, of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock.
Gal noted that birth dates, locations, email addresses and more were leaked on top of the phone numbers. In particular, 3.5 million Canadians were affected, says Gal.
However, Facebook is now downplaying what happened while ostensibly attributing blame to the users who had their information leaked.
âIt is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019,â Clark wrote.